Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals [Hardcover]

Lynn Grodzki (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0393703312 | ISBN-13: 978-0393703313 | Publication Date: April 15, 2000 | Edition: 1

Would you like to: Make more money in your private practice? Attract more ideal clients? Generate a flow of quality referrals? Revitalize your existing practice? Have increased confidence as a business owner?

In this book, psychotherapist and business coach Lynn Grodzki acts as your personal business coach and shows you how to build an ideal private practice—one that is both highly profitable and personally satisfying.

Today, being a talented professional is not enough to ensure the success of your private practice; you also need to be an enthusiastic, talented businessperson. Grodzki's business strategies are effective and immediately useful for a wide range of private practitioners, including social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, massage therapists, energy healers, life coaches, and chiropractors.

Whether you are just starting out as an independent practitioner or looking to revitalize an existing practice, Building Your Ideal Private Practice provides a foundation for business and personal growth that will lead you to a new level of personal and financial enrichment. Presenting innovative business concepts in a format specifically adapted for the therapeutic profession, this book guides professionals at all stages of their careers.

Bringing together years of experience and the key elements from her Private Practice Success Program with an easy and accessible writing style, Grodzki's book will help you not only build a successful practice outside managed care, but also ensure that your business reflects your true values and talents.

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About the Author

Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC, is a psychotherapist in full-time private practice, a former business executive, and one of the leading business coaches in the US for small business owners. She specializes in working with change-agents: therapists, coaches, healers, and other service-oriented consultants who help others make change in their lives.

Through her workshops and writing, she has become a pioneer in the field of practice-building, helping non-business-oriented professionals develop their private practices. With Lynn’s guidance, thousands of professionals now operate small businesses that offer them a high degree of integrity as well as enhanced financial success. Lynn lives and works in Silver Spring, Maryland and can be reached by email at: [e-mail].

Product Details

• Hardcover: 266 pages
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393703312
• ISBN-13: 978-0393703313
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #24 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Marketing
  • #26 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Practice Management & Reimbursement
  • #61 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Health Care Delivery

More About the Author

Lynn Grodzki is a pioneer in the field of practice-building, showing professionals how to own and operate a business that yields profits, principles, and personal choice.

She is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice and a master certified coach.

Her first book, "Building Your Ideal Private Practice" has been the best-selling guide to practice building for therapists and other healing professionals for almost a decade. Her newest book, "Crisis-Proof Your Practice" is the right book for these difficult times.

Lynn's articles about practice-building appear in national magazines and she publishes a free monthly email newsletter that is read by seven thousand professionals. See more information, read articles, and subscribe to her free newsletter at her website: www.privatepracticesuccess.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

168 of 174 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every paragraph contained a fresh valuable tip/consideration, May 13, 2000

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Happier in Bed "April" (Eastern Shore of Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals (Hardcover)

The first 30 pages alone would have been enough to rank 10 stars! Just by reading this book I became optimistic about my practice and it began to fill. Each chapter gave me ideas I never thought of before. It helped me work smarter - with less effort, much more pleasure. By the time I finished this book I was trying to decide whether to raise my rates or start a waiting list, and I was seeing IDEAL clients, taking no HMO's, charging more than other psychiatrists in my area, and looking forward to going to work each day. This book blends business with integrity and taught me to value myself, my practice and my clients. I recommend it to ANYONE in the health care field. It made it so easy, and helped me to confront business aspects I hadn't been paying attention to. And she gives so may real life examples, it feels do-able. This book is worth a years' worth of high quality business consulting. I recommend it to any of my clients who have private practices from yoga instruction to massage therapists, and to all my friends in the psychotherapy field. I have never made so much money or felt so good about my practice in my life. She even makes talking to clients about money something I can now do in a way that feels both appropriate and respectful - to me and to them. What I have learned has already netted me literally thousands of dollars. I have never written a book review before, but I have to express my gratitude in some way, and this is my attempt to let others know that with the suggestions, tips and encouragement from this book, it is not only possible to make a living doing therapy, but to build an IDEAL practice without having to contract with any insurance companies. What a God-send of a book.

48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, solid, straightforward help for therapists, July 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals (Hardcover)

I am a clinical social worker, in private practice for quite a while. Last year without knowing why, my client count began to drop off. I got worried. A colleague in my peer supervision group swore by this book. (Her practice stays full all the time.) I think it is the most helpful book on practice-building and marketing for therapists I have ever read. The information in the book is really useful and solid. But more than that, the tone of the book is so calming and inspiring. The author clearly knows her topic, and she finds ways to explain exactly what steps you need to take to become more profitable and grow your practice. Unlike other non-therapist marketers, she understands the mind of a healing professional and the mental shifts in thinking that introverts like me need to go through in order to follow through on networking or getting more boundaries in place for my billing policy. On the back of the book, one reviewer (who was a social worker of the year!) said the book should be the bible of every clinician. I agree. I keep it on my bedside table, and when I can't sleep because I am worried about my practice, I open up this book and feel inspired. Her new workbook is great as well.

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A necessity for every person thinking about private practice, April 5, 2000

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Lee W. (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Your Ideal Private Practice: A Guide for Therapists and Other Healing Professionals (Hardcover)

This book gave me the vision to open my own private practice. It provided me with the necessary information to make me feel confident when I finally made the decision to begin building my own practice. It not only explained the business aspects but also described how to make me personally satisfied with what I was doing. I call this book my "Private Practice Bible" and I am sure you will too once you read it for yourself. Good luck with your dreams. This book helped me make mine come true.